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If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devic...
  • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    4 months ago

    Remember when Apple were supposed to be the bad guys and Google/Android were “one of us”?

      • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
        4·
        4 months ago

        My phone doesn’t have any custom ROM support yet, so I guess I’m screwed? I love F-Droid, but this missive amounts to just ragebait for people who don’t have Pixel devices.

        • bryndos@fedia.io
          5·
          4 months ago

          Buy a phone that lineage os support then. Way more options than pixels. Pretty cheap used, you just have to accept one from a few years ago. and make sure that any required bootloader unlock from oem can still be done.

      • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Just ordered a Pixel phone today. Between this and mandatory Gemini AI, I’m leaving Android.

    • prism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      Best way is to not include it in the first place by using another ROM. If that’s not an option, you can always remove it via root. It may also be possible to use ADB/Shizuku to get rid of it, but Google could add checks to prevent ADB from removing it. Then again apps installed via ADB aren’t subject to verification.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      At first Google does plan to offer something called “advanced flow” that will let you install what you want. But this doesn’t address the chilling effect for developers (some are just getting out of Android rather than registering and paying Google), or the censorship power it hands to Google to make “undesirable” apps harder to obtain and install. And there’s no guarantee they won’t just withdraw “advanced flow” one day.

      https://developer.android.com//developer-verification/guides/faq#advanced-flow

      The best way to avoid it is by installing an OS that doesn’t include the developer verification component.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      It might as well be if you’re trying to do something it doesn’t like. I created the registry entry in my VM and it still keeps turning itself back on.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    4 months ago

    For a long time I thought side loading was something special because it didn’t say “installing software”, so it must be some very special procedure that is required for mobile devices because of limitations or requirements with the hardware, right?

    Yeah no, it was just a made up marketing term to push people away from installing their own software on their own devices

    Fuck all big tech companies